ISLAND DEVASTATED
EAST AFRICAN DISASTER.
CYCLONE VISITATION
BUILDINGS RAZED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) Received February 14, 9.40 a.m. LOURENCO MARQIiES, Feb. 14. A cyclone lias devastated the island of Angoohe. Every house and two lighthouses have been razed. Two Europeans, including a missionary and a nun, were killed. The edge of the cyclone swept Mozambique and wrecked till the small craft in the harbour.
Louronco Marques is capital of Portuguese East Africa or Mozambique, on the north bank of (he. Espirito Snato or English River, Delagoa Bay, and 396 miles by rail via Pretoria from Johannesburg.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 63, 14 February 1939, Page 7
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99ISLAND DEVASTATED Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 63, 14 February 1939, Page 7
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